i mean. it's midnight here in moscow at least of the scenes from cairo right now live pictures from the crowds of protesters amassed near the presidential palace after breaching barricades around it head of saturday's referendum on the new constitution go to our correspondent there to bring us up to date on what's happening in just a few ticks all of the headlines tonight stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations who cream of profits instead of paying a fair share and reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a northern army base in a deadly assault while fears mount that the country's chemical weapons could fall into militant hands we explore that.

morning from heaven when here at r.t. this morning first let's focus on egypt there are thousands of pro and anti morsi demonstrators are gathering right now in cairo ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution protesters opposed to the president have breached the barricades of the presidential palace amid fears that the proposed draft would lead the country towards an islamic dictatorship our correspondent on the scene. and she is live in cairo a lot of judges across egypt said earlier this evening that they will refuse to take part in saturday's referendum what's morsi like to do given these latest developments than you think. oh yes the general assembly of the judges announced a few hours ago that they would be boycotting the referendum the problem is now he will actually man the polling stations this is met with scenes here in front the

presidential palace of protesters said the referendum simply can't go ahead if the judge is going to be manning the polling stations. in the last few weeks about stepping in to help in addition. there have been some individual judges who said that they will actually assist the electoral commission is still maintaining that the referendum will go ahead on saturday and they do have enough judges have it yet to be seen see how it will be run my guess is but no official comment from the morsy side so far this evening no. no there hasn't been any official from the president any official statement from the presidency as to how the referendum will be run the referendum is of course supposed to be happening abroad tomorrow and again there's been some confusion reported from embassies about how they were actually going to run this vote course the other yesterday the military was granted temporary powers to detain citizens is there a danger that. more violence is war isn't it. absolutely when the news broke of president mohamed morsi if you do use this new law granting us

soldiers the right to arrest protesters condemned this is basically egypt experiencing martial law human rights groups amnesty international and human rights watch said it was a worrying sign giving the day the truck history of the military the military of course where in power off the president president mubarak stepped down and during that year and a half of transition we witnessed a lot of human rights violations by the army including the internationally condemned practice of civilians being trying to find a military court defeat here on the streets of cairo is that if unrest continues and there is significant violence the minute you will step in the news quite heavy handed tactics against the protesters and we will see quite a lot of violence at the moment those who are saying the referendum looks set to go ahead of the officials or more she's saying what's the likely outcome going to be that's the big question is now. yes this is the million dollar question how that. the referendum here at the protest they are absolutely convinced that the referendum will be a no simply because there has been such

a large expression of dissent here on the streets with protests happening almost every single day in addition to the high stakes to society for example at. journalists striking and of course the judges there is just a few kilometers away here from the presidential palace a significant ronnie's in support of the president's base tens of thousands of people saying that the constitution is the only way stupidity in this country saying yes to legitimacy and it really egypt must vote yes in this referendum to ensure a successful transition to democracy so we'll just have to see really what happens on saturday in the upcoming weeks absolutely. those pictures of all those crowds gathered there in the tanks lined up as well on the left side of the of the shop quite a lot to take in there was. true thanks ever so much we appreciate it later of course if anything else kicks off throughout the course of the night. journalist sharmeen spoke to me earlier on he believes that morsi is draft is putting the nation on the brink of civil war this is what he had to say. as far as judges and the

judiciary system is concerned this. is existing. in egypt and that's why he retreated because you wouldn't couldn't if you're going to court cannot actually make any judgment. he insisted on the. situation after that actually has not been discussed. by the people of egypt. after that actually the country in a. civil war will. speak for the first time ever in the history of egypt that the country is on the age your. point we don't even know you've been will be put in them because many judges are still refusing to see what advise it which will make it illegal if

it happens all the. judiciary supervision is not going to. be subordinate if he's insisting on. this is going to be a threat to the unity of the people to the. people of egypt feel that the idea. being. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead in britain with but protections and welfare cuts but not everyone's feeling the pinch profit sharing multinationals like amazon and starbucks imagine to exploit tax laws to the fullest the public then was paid back and a set of first reports for arteta telling the government it's not doing enough. well people from all over the border tend not to protect this country with this

company just like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's mustn't this there be sentences based in the u.k.

in fact the reality is that many of our customers the bare employees and many will distribution centers like this what are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out to time illegal on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds you can't spend it in the chancellor's autumn

statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare he we're in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but there are now that people know that morsi or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it after not paying well there's a difference between people. who voiding tax through legitimate reads and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen or not i still enjoyed and paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually. the tax avoid is ok to

legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah ferguson r.t. london just spoke to one man disease from a dutch based firm specializing in tax avoidance helping clients use legal loopholes in setting up companies and tax haven see insists though people have an obligation to pay as little as they can. taxation is actually a very inefficient way to get services it's much more efficient over done by the free market in a free market when there is competition between companies prices go down and

quality goes up. but when when you allow government to take a huge chunk of the nation's income through taxation the result is not just that it's detrimental to the individual rights but also there. are things that government does that actually don't very very poorly i know they're going to a lot of people watching tonight jumping in and out of what you were saying things no doubt the t.v. screen anyway why do you think governments keep bringing up the problem of tax avoidance and then at the same time fail to do anything concrete to change it. that's because fortunately we don't have one world government we have two hundred countries in the world and every country has a right to set their own tax rates and decide what their own tax policy is and that's why we have tax competition that is why companies can excrete high tax burdens by taking advantage of that there are countries that have low tax burdens

and that's why also individuals can take advantage of tax competition which is actually very beneficial because tax competition is what keeps tax rates down in one nine hundred eighty our tax rates were almost double what they are today and the reason they have dropped so much worldwide is because of tax competition we've all seen the public anger at large companies avoiding paying taxes such as the recent protests against starbucks in the u.k. as the peg for all this those people who have a bigger tax burden of course because big firms can employ accountants to get clever with profits where does social responsibility kick in the. i think every individual has a moral duty to report as much tax as possible to avoid it yes because if you can if you can avoid tax which means you can you can lower your tax burden legally and decide not to you paying more tax in europe and then you're obliged to under the law and the government uses the tax money for bad things it uses it to to buy

a whole army of the bureaucrats who write billions of new rules and create a lot of damage when you pay too much tax your corresponds with your morally corresponds to the damage of government guns so i think every person has a moral obligation to pay as little. bahrain's leader he would right sector it is staying behind bars we talk about that seem to not be a ragin was going to sentence reduced on appeal despite international pressure on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists and let him go free we talked more about that later also a midwestern concerns of the syrian government could use chemical weapons or a growing fears the stockpile could actually get into extremist hands that's right . it's perched atop a giant rock and the view from the ball scrubland stretches as far as the eye can

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again thanks for being with r.t. tonight now reports claim syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front of seize control of an army base in the country's north killing thirty five soldiers the u.s. backs the opposition movement but is place that militant group on a terrorist list and. explains there are increasing fears syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands some of the images coming from this report are of a graphic nature. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that

countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might them solves provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as hizbullah in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the shift reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms

of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can be verified what we do know is that so your has one of the world's largest chemical weapon arsenals so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extent to and the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage it is unknown exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and indeed in whose hands they are they said he is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using

chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as limbs and incredible lose to the bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a threat against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as share means while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners now according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of the headed victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating or verifying exactly the crew thought of this although some sources say that they were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this

video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate. more know from the heights of a member of the syrian social club in london the group pushing for peaceful reform in syria very good evening sir thanks for being with us from u.s. sources say the washington's training rebels to secure a little chemical weapons if the syrian government falls do you think that's a first step towards intervention. well good evening to you and to your viewers first of all but i believe washington was doing many things before i mean this propaganda came out now and incitement about the chemical weapons despite the syrian government sending many letters to the united nations to the secretary general back in moments of assuring him if there is

a chemical weapon in syria they are in the same path as us i mean outsiders and i'm not speaking in the name of the syrian government if there is a chemical weapons we know all over the years this weapons is acting as a deterrent against the israeli nuclear but there is no way and there is no unturned ssion of syrian government will use this weapons inside syria let's i mean we all know most of the areas in syria there might be a small area here with a rebel or with some governments and the fighters but there is also a lot of civilians who they are pro-government and believe in their government legitimacy so this question is just an incitement to cover the crime is being now launched from the turkish border with the turkish government

i'm not talking here about the turkish people but the turkish government is the most criminal bring in those criminals from all over the world train them arming them in here in turkey near the syrian border and pushing this fighters to clear to syria to kill and maim this is i act of war against syria and this is a slamming to the wall with the international law haifa munchies that the u.s. put the syrian islamist rebel group on a terror list eventually just now amid fears that chemical weapons could possibly fall into the hands of extremists is not enough to prevent that awful possibility from happening. well the syrian government is doing its best to keep all their weapons under a safe hands there is in the media it seems like every area in syria that is a rebel that this is not the true there is a syrian government and the syrian troops and i mean the authority in syria is

controlling quite a large area controlling their weapons that was controlling their manufacturing areas of cold missiles for all the old different weapons are not a military man. and they are assuring and if they see the syrian government if they see any danger of this rebels trying to get their hands on the chemical weapons or every or any weapon of mass destruction syria i am true syria will inform the international community and will ask the international community to help in that regard but i do moment we want anina all the syrians they were fighting for political issues for for political process to observe the international law because what seems to me i mean united states some european countries plus qatar and saudi they are still arming the international go to the wall they don't want to

know and most of this talk comes from the united states or saudi or qatar or turkey particular it's actually act of war against syria people in syria they are they friends of already they want syria they want to see the government to act outside this boulder but i'm sure this is going to say one favorite sign the height of us about a member of the assyrian social club thanks for making a point so clear it's pretty shady thank you. online fear droning on america reveals a futuristic you weapon in the fight against terror a u.s. manufacturer fails the next generation of unmanned drones fitted with the so-called death ray laser admitting they never run out of ammunition to find out more about see dot com also on our web site so the real cost of studying in the u.k. skyrocketing prices for higher education may soon rise to one hundred thousand talk about. mixed news for jailed human rights activist in bahrain leading campaign

enough jobs had his prison term cut from three to two years on appeal that been widespread calls for his release following his conviction in august for organizing illegal gatherings and inciting violence international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists said had the form of iranian play and human rights activist in manama told me the sentence was reduced to appease the international rights groups. unfortunately we hear today that the reduce the three year sentence to two years but it shows that the regime insists to practice revenge against maybe roger actually maybe roger should not be behind the bar there is lots of officials figures in this regime should be behind them are always calling for people well and brain is calling for democracy is calling for our rights he's calling all our demands to be. achieved

so he is not that person should be behind the ball but unfortunately we are in the ship. it seems that they don't want to say to the observers in the world not to organize a human rights organization they are not practical they reduce the the charge to say we are practical we are looking forward to seeing that be with us. and he tore him specially the out the door and only ever the only evidence against. northern ireland gets a welcome reminder of a sectarian past ten violence broke over how many days a year the u.k. flag should be flown from belfast city hall. and also coming up to the story of an american woman who was forcibly sterilized as a teenager is part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation those stories after the business. of

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